In Latur, Mandade suggested to Jain that he should call up Nimbalkar under an assumed name and lure him for a land deal.

Jain, posing as 'Mahendra Jain', called Nimbalkar and succeeded in fixing up a meeting at Shilphata. He also learnt that from there, Nimbalkar would go to Pune. The would-be killers then planned out a suitable spot near Kalamboli where they could ambush and kill Nimbalkar.

After successfully gunning down Nimbalkar and his driver, the killers left the place in their Tata Indica car, dumped the arms and ammunition nearby and abandoned the vehicle in Belavali village before returning to Mumbai.

Thereafter, Mandade and Shukla collected the contract killing money from Patil and handed it over to Jain, the charge sheet says.

In turn, Jain traveled to Bashkari, Uttar Pradesh, and handed over the amount to the killer trio, the charge sheet said.

Investigations were initiated in the case by the Kalamboli Police Station and later, as per a Bombay High Court order of Oct 23, 2008, handed the case over to the CBI.

The CBI conducted investigations into the case and finally nabbed Patil and the others involved in the double murder case.

They are: Patil, 69, of Osmanabad district from where he was elected to the Lok Sabha in May 2009; Mandade, 55, of Latur district; Shukla, 59, and Jain, 47, both of Dombivli in Thane district; Tiwari, 39, of Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh; Singh, 31, of Siwan, Bihar; Pandey and Yadav, 46, both of Ambedkar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh; and Kulkarni, 53, of Mumbai.